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At Point Elliott, Maynard cemented this alliance (and greatly benefited his emerging town) by negotiating for Chief Seattle and the Duwamish a separate, more favorable treaty, which, in exchange for a relatively large reservation (promised, not yet ever fulfilled), Natives abandoned all aboriginal title to 54,790 acres (221.7 km 2 ...
The Seattle Times. Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By. p. 1. Archived from the original on 7 May 2006 and Ibid (27 May 2001). "The settlers saw trees, endless trees. The natives saw the spaces between the trees". The Seattle Times. Seattle History : 150 Years: Seattle By and By. p. 2.
The Industrial District is a neighborhood and the principal industrial area of Seattle, Washington.It is bounded on the west by the Duwamish River and Elliott Bay, beyond which lies Delridge of West Seattle; on the east by Interstate 5, beyond which lies Beacon Hill; on the north by S King and S Dearborn Streets, beyond which lie Pioneer Square and southwest International District of Downtown ...
The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929-1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland (2000) Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, ed. Shaping Seattle architecture: a historical guide to the architects (University of Washington Press, 2017). Oldham, Kit; Peter Blecha (2011). Rising Tides and Tailwinds: The Story of the Port of Seattle, 1911 ...
The Mercer Girls or Mercer Maids were women who chose to move from the east coast of the United States to the Seattle area in the 1860s at the invitation of Asa Mercer. Mercer, an American who lived in Seattle , wanted to "import" women to the Pacific Northwest to balance the gender ratio. [ 1 ]
The Seattle Republican daily newspaper beings publication [16] 1895 – Seattle General Hospital established. 1898 – U.S. assay office opens. [17] 1899 The Seattle Star newspaper begins publication. [5] Tlingit totem pole installed in Pioneer Place. 1900 Population: 80,671. [2] Seattle General Hospital re-opened in a new building.
One of the real impetuses for the United States entering the Industrial Revolution was the passage of the Embargo Act of 1807, the War of 1812 (1812–15) and the Napoleonic Wars (1803–15) which cut off supplies of new and cheaper Industrial revolution products from Britain. The lack of access to these goods all provided a strong incentive to ...
A fourth of the original forest cover in the eastern states was gone. At the same time there was a major change in how Americans viewed forests. They were recognized as the foundation of industrialization, agricultural expansion, and material progress. Lumber was the nation's largest industry in 1850, and second in 1860 behind textiles.